America to Me is a 2018 American documentary television miniseries directed by Steve James, produced by Kartemquin Films and Participant Media.
"[2] Because of the scope of the project, James split the job of directing and filming between himself and three other "segment directors": Kevin Shaw, who is African-American; Bing Liu, who is Asian-American; and Rebecca Parrish, who is white.
[3] Recruiting a multicultural team of filmmakers helped reducing real or perceived white bias of the series, providing four different points of view.
[4] As of March, 2019 the series has not been made available on physical media, but is available for streaming with a Starz subscription,[5] or for purchase on Vudu,[6] YouTube,[7] and Google Play.
[10] The series has been praised by critics for "detailed look at inequality in America through the lens of a storied high school near Chicago",[11] for "bitingly honest mediation of the ways race, class, and equity play out in Chicago’s progressive suburb of Oak Park",[12] and was pronounced a "testament to how individuals can persevere within a broken system, and how much harder that system makes it for some of them".